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bigfry
Rising Star
Bronze Level
This is a recent hand from my first live tournament game. It is a 10 handed game, with most people at or near 15,000 chips and I have about 30,000 chips after winning an earlier hand against villain. This hand occurred about 30 minutes into the tournament.
Hero - Cutoff (~30,000 chips)
Villain - Button (~25,000 chips)
Blinds are 100/200 with big blind ante of 200
4 limpers ahead of Hero, who is in the Cutoff with Ace Jack off suit, and decides to raise to 1,000.
Villain in the Button calls, and an early position player (a player who limped) also calls.
Pot is at 4100 pre-flop.
Flop comes K Q 9 rainbow, early position player checks to Hero, and Hero C-bets for 2000. Villain calls, and the early position player folds.
Turn brings an off-suit 5, so now there are no flush possibilities.
Hero decides to bet again for 5,000 into a 8,100 pot.
Villain calls.
River comes a 2, and Hero fires a third barrel for 7,000 into a pot of 18,100.
Villain snap calls and shows Ace 9 off-suit for middle pair and wins the pot.
After a few more hours of playing in this tournament, I realized that villain was calling all the way down with Ace or King high on wet boards. Had I known this, I would not have tried to bluff him earlier in the tournament.
As for this hand, how should I have played it differently? I am a cash game player, and started poker about 3 months ago and have played in 3 live cash games.
Thank you in advance for your feedback and tips
Hero - Cutoff (~30,000 chips)
Villain - Button (~25,000 chips)
Blinds are 100/200 with big blind ante of 200
4 limpers ahead of Hero, who is in the Cutoff with Ace Jack off suit, and decides to raise to 1,000.
Villain in the Button calls, and an early position player (a player who limped) also calls.
Pot is at 4100 pre-flop.
Flop comes K Q 9 rainbow, early position player checks to Hero, and Hero C-bets for 2000. Villain calls, and the early position player folds.
Turn brings an off-suit 5, so now there are no flush possibilities.
Hero decides to bet again for 5,000 into a 8,100 pot.
Villain calls.
River comes a 2, and Hero fires a third barrel for 7,000 into a pot of 18,100.
Villain snap calls and shows Ace 9 off-suit for middle pair and wins the pot.
After a few more hours of playing in this tournament, I realized that villain was calling all the way down with Ace or King high on wet boards. Had I known this, I would not have tried to bluff him earlier in the tournament.
As for this hand, how should I have played it differently? I am a cash game player, and started poker about 3 months ago and have played in 3 live cash games.
Thank you in advance for your feedback and tips